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Patent GB-2309669-A (GB)
Title: Removable storage compartment lid containing asecondary storage space.
Inventor: CONDON ALAN RICHARD
IPC: B60R7/06
Filed: 1996-02-01
Abstract: A storage unit 1 for a vehicle 3 comprises a storage body 5 defining a primary storage space 7 and a lid 11 mountable on the storage body by a tongue (60) engaging a shoulder 65 to produce a pivoting means 15 to allow the lid to pivot between a closed and an open position and releasable positive location means 17 for closing the lid . The pivot is also releasable to allow removal of the lid from the vehicle and the lid comprises a secondary housing defining a secondary storage space 19. The lid is easily removable so that valuables may be stored within it and the lid taken with the driver of the vehicle.
Patent GB-2298102-A (GB)
Title: Over head projector apparatus
Inventor: UMEI SACHIO
IPC: H04N5/74
Filed: 1996-02-13
Abstract: An over head projector includes an image inputting device 13, a projecting optical system 31 for projecting image data onto a screen 32, and an image data magnifying device 20 to divide the image data of a plurality of characters into one or more groups of characters such that each group fits a display area having a predetermined size, to magnify the character image data, and to transmit the magnified character image data group by group to the projecting optical system 31.
Patent GB-2298277-A (GB)
Title: Delay line for an ultrasonic probe with an interface allowing inbuilt calibration
Inventor: VANDERVALK LEON C
IPC: G10K11/24
Filed: 1996-02-14
Abstract: An ultrasonic probe includes an ultrasonic transducer 14; a delay line 10 acoustically coupled to said transducer 14 so that ultrasonic vibrations may be transmitted into said delay line 10 from said ultrasonic transducer 14 in a first direction, said delay line 10 includes a first section 11 and a second section 12; the first and second sections forming an interface 13 that is substantially perpendicular to said first direction; and the second section 12 including a surface 15 for coupling with a material to be investigated. The probe can be used to measure a thickness of a coating on a substrate by transmitting a signal in a first direction from the transducer 14 into the delay line 10; measuring a time t 1 for a first portion of the signal to travel round trip from the transducer 14 and the interface 13; using the measured time t 1 to calculate an expected time t 2 for a second portion of the signal to travel round trip from the transducer 14 to an opposite face of the delay line 15; measuring a time t 3 that it takes for a third portion of the signal to travel round trip from the transducer 14 and an interface between the coating and the substrate; and calculating a thickness of the coating based on a difference between the time t 2 and the time t 3 .
Patent GB-2311366-A (GB)
Title: Determining absorption coefficients or modified scattering ceofficients
Inventor: KOHL MATTHIAS
IPC: A61B5/145
Filed: 1996-03-19
Abstract: A method of determining the absolute absorption coefficient and the modified scattering coefficient in highly scattering medium, comprises passing light into the medium, detecting diffuse light leaving the medium, measuring changes in at least two of the intensity, phase and modulation depth that are induced in the light by a common cause such as by small absorption coefficient changes or changes in source/detector distance. These changes can be induced by a) changes in the chromophore concentration, b) small changes in wavelength, c) changes in blood flow and oxygenation in a limb or in the head of a foetus, or d) changes in the distance between light source and detector. The absorption coefficient may be determined from the ratio of the two measured changes.
Patent GB-2299174-A (GB)
Title: Weighing device for containers
Inventor: MITCHINSON JAMES COLLIER
IPC: G01G21/23
Filed: 1996-03-21
Abstract: A weighing device (110) for gauging the contents of beer kegs (112) by tilting, comprises an elongate member (114) having hook means (116) for engaging the upper rim of the keg and a handle (118) allowing the keg to be tilted by pulling on the handle, a load cell (120) on the elongate member (114) measuring the strain induced in it by tilting the keg, so as to generate an output signal processed by a data processing unit (122) including display means and data input means. The handle is pivoted about an axis (136) to the elongate member (114). The measurement algorithm averages the peak strain values occurring at the beginning and end of the tilt cycle. The user is prompted to repeat the measurement if the two values are unsatisfactory. A weighing platform may be secured to the lower end of the elongate member (114).
Patent GB-2302408-A (GB)
Title: Capacitance measurement
Inventor: YANG WUQIANG
IPC: G01N27/24
Filed: 1996-06-17
Abstract: A method and apparatus for measuring the capacitance between combinations of electrodes in a multi-electrode array such as a capacitance tomography system for investigating multi-phase flows comprises the steps of applying excitation signals to each electrode and deriving measurement signals representative of inter-electrode capacitances from the same electrode in each case. Each electrode to which an excitation signal is applied is connected to one input of a first operational amplifier 24,25, to the other input of which an excitation signal source v i ,-v i is connected. The measurement signal is derived from the output of a second operational amplifier 27,28, one input of which is connected to the output of the first operational amplifier and the other input of which is connected to the excitation signal source.
Patent GB-2303280-A (GB)
Title: Power supply for rastercentering circuit is derived from EHT flyback transformer
Inventor: PARK KWANG HO
IPC: H04N3/16
Filed: 1996-07-08
Abstract: The power supply for the raster centre controller 13 includes coils L12, L13 provided in a secondary winding of the EHT flyback transformer, for generating and providing to the raster centre controller a pulse voltage having a pulse width corresponding to that of a high voltage developed in the flyback transformer (fig 4). First and second power supply sections D11, D12, C11, C12 are coupled between the coils and the raster centre controller to provide positive and negative supply voltages to the raster centre controller. This power supply can prevent picture movement phenomena on a crt display which are caused by an unstable power supply to the raster centre controller due to changes of the horizontal frequency.
Patent GB-2301361-A (GB)
Title: High temperature epoxy resins
Inventor: JOHNCOCK PETER
IPC: C08G59/32
Filed: 1995-02-16
Abstract: A multi-functional epoxy resin with good high temperature properties allowing prolonged service at temperatures above 120 {C is derived from a precursor of formula (I), in which R 3 to R 8 inclusive are independently selected from hydrogen, C 1 to C 3 alkyl or halo-alkyl and R 9 is hydrogen, alkyl or halogen, and in which n has the value 0, 1 or 2. The precursor (I) may be self-coupled or cross-coupled with precursors of other epoxy compounds of the TGDDM type. Such cross-coupling gives rise to a complex mixture containing not only the mixed product, but also the self-coupled products of each constituent. Regardless of the precise chemical make-up of the mixture, the observed glass transition temperature is higher than for TGDDM resins formed without precursor (I). If the substituent at the R 9 position is alkyl or halogen, oligomer formation is suppressed and a less complex mixture results.
Patent GB-2319808-A (GB)
Title: A base for supporting a fan and a fan motor
Inventor: WEHDEN ERNST FREDRICK
IPC: F16M7/00
Filed: 1996-09-18
Abstract: A base for supporting a fan, a fan motor and, if necessary, a drive guard and for mounting onto a firm surface, is pre-drilled with holes and slots to accept a plurality of fan sizes and one or more sizes of adjustable motor base plate, the holes/slots for the motor base plate being so sized, shaped and arranged that the position of the motor base plate can be adjusted in a direction transverse to the longitudinal axis of the base. As illustrated, the base is in the form of a plate with holes 23 to accommodate different sized fans and slots 25 to accommodate, and permit transverse adjustment of, one or more motor base plates. In an alternative embodiment, the base consists of a series of cross members movable along two side members.
Patent GB-2309750-A (GB)
Title: Cryogenic vacuum pump with electronically controlled regeneration.
Inventor: BARTLETT ALLEN J
IPC: F04B37/08
Filed: 1994-02-23
Abstract: A method of partial regeneration of a cryopump having at least first 50 and second 54 stages of cryopanels coupled to a cryogenic refrigerator and a heating element 69 heats the first and second stages through respective mounts 71 and 73, the method comprising heating the second stage cryopanel to a temperature greater than 175K while rough pumping the cryopump.
Patent GB-2313752-A (GB)
Title: Bit-serial digital expander
Inventor: BAKER JAMES C
IPC: H03G11/00
Filed: 1997-04-25
Abstract: A bit-serial digital expandor includes a bit-serial dual scaler block (340), a bit-serial rectifier block (320), a bit-serial lowpass wave digital filter block (350), a bit-serial scaler with overflow detection block (360), a bitserial multiplier block (380), and a bit-serial scaler and clipper block (395). This bit-serial expandor can be used in an AMPS cellular telephone receiver to produce a receiver having a lower silicon area, gate count, and current drain compared to equivalent parallel architecture receivers.
Patent GB-2319471-A (GB)
Title: Shower assembly
Inventor: TERRELL CHRISTOPHER
IPC: E03C1/05
Filed: 1997-11-20
Abstract: A shower assembly has at least electrically-controllable property wherein the electrical power for said controllable propert(y/ies) is derived at least in part from the incoming water flow e.g. by means of a rotatable member (322) positioned in said path. The controllable property suitably comprise the temperature of the shower water.
Patent GB-2319630-A (GB)
Title: Combining radiation beams using stack of angularly offset optical plates
Inventor: BECKMANN LEO HEINRICH JOSEF FR
IPC: G02B27/09
Filed: 1997-11-26
Abstract: An optical concatenation element J includes a stack of angularly offset plates of optical glass or polymer. Individual radiation beams arranged in a linear array, for example, from an array of laser diodes m, are first manipulated by a series of optical elements L1-L4 so that the individual beams are collimated, given a spherical wavefront, and then focused in image space. Second, the beams are focused on the optical concatenation element J and manipulated such that the beams are mutually aligned in the direction of low beam quality and thereby concatenated in the direction of high beam quality. The combined beam exiting the optical concatenation element is astigmatic, a quality which may be corrected by one or more optical lenses L5, L6. The resulting beam is a substantially rotationally symmetrical laser beam of relatively higher radiant power.
Patent GB-2325166-A (GB)
Title: Flexible endoscopic instrument
Inventor: OUCHI TERUO
IPC: A61B1/00
Filed: 1998-05-07
Abstract: An operating instrument for endoscopic surgery which can be used in combination with a normal, straight trocar. The operating instrument includes a tubular jacket tube 11 which is formed from an elastic tubular member to normally maintain a curved shape and which can be elastically deformed to be insertable into a straight, cylindrical trocar 1, an elastic manipulating shaft 27 which is passed through the jacket tube 1 and has distal end operating members 24 connected to the distal end thereof for performing a treatment within a body, and a manipulating part 30, which is connected to the proximal end of the jacket tube 11 for manipulating the distal end operating members 24 via manipulating shaft 27.
Patent GB-2327777-A (GB)
Title: Regulating the fuel pressure in an internal combustion engine
Inventor: HAMMEL CHRISTOF
IPC: F02M37/00
Filed: 1998-07-22
Abstract: Controlling a high-pressure fuel supply installation in an internal combustion engine, in particular an engine with a common fuel rail system 130, comprises the steps of conveying fuel by pumps 110 and 125 from a low-pressure region into the high-pressure region including the rail 130, detecting the fuel pressure P in the rail 130 using a pressure sensor 140, and then setting the pressure to a target value using a regulator. The regulator comprises a control device 160 which acts on the coil 136 of a pressure regulating valve 135. The valve can be arranged so that it discharges a certain quantity of fuel back into the low pressure region in dependence on the control signal A and the coil 136. The control device processes signals from various sensors 165 representing operational states of the engine, such as rotational speed, and then the transmission behaviour of the regulator is set depending on these sensed parameters. For example, the values of the proportional and integral constants of the regulator can be varied.
Patent GB-2330290-A (GB)
Title: Die-cast heating member
Inventor: TAYLOR JOHN CRAWSHAW
IPC: H05B3/82
Filed: 1998-08-26
Abstract: An electric heater for a liquid heating vessel is formed by an electric heating element 2 cast into a die-cast carrier 12, preferably of aluminium or an alloy thereof. The electric heater is adapted to be completely immersed in the liquid to be heated. A minimum water level indicator 30 may be provided.
Patent GB-2329053-A (GB)
Title: Motor vehicle anti-theft system
Inventor: OBERMAIER ROBERT
IPC: B60R25/04
Filed: 1998-09-02
Abstract: An anti-theft system for a motor vehicle having a disabling device (6) for disabling the operation of the motor vehicle and a control unit (2) which, in the event of actuation of a starting arrangement (8), by way of a search signal addresses a code signal transmitter (22) which transmits a code signal to the control unit, in which case the control unit only renders the disabling device inoperative if a comparison of the code signal with information stored in it (the control unit) is positive, is distinguished by the fact that the control unit transmits a test signal at a point in time which is independent of any actuation of the starting arrangement (8) and triggers an error message if the code signal is received thereupon. This thwarts a method of theft involving removing the transponder (22) from a key and installing it in the vehicle (hire-car) to permit theft later.
Patent GB-982183-A (GB)
Abstract: 982,183. Electric selective signalling systems. SVENSKA A.B. GASACCUMULATOR. Sept. 13, 1961 [Sept. 20, 1960], No. 32840/61. Heading G4H. The known system Fig. 1 of producing a signal V. sin (wt-α) where phase α represents the angular position of a rotor with respect to quadrature stator windings is modified Fig. 3 by amplitude modulating each of the signals of Fig. 1 upon a relatively high frequency carrier V. sin w 1 t because it is then easier to measure the phase of the output signal digitally. Thus in Fig. 3, the quadrature stator voltages are V. sin w 1 t. sin wt and V. sin w, t cos wt, the former being shown in Fig. 4, and the output signal is V. sin w 1 t. sin (wt-α), also shown in Fig. 4. These two signals shown in Fig. 4 are amplified and limited Figs. 5A and 5B, rectified Figs. 6C and 6D, and finally combined in an and gate to produce bursts of pulses Fig. 6E each representative of the phase α of the output signal. (This arrangement works because at every zero crossing of the lower frequency sin wt the phase of the limited high frequency pulses is shifted through 180 degrees and the effect of a phase shift of the low frequency is to move the point at which the phase reversal occurs in the limited high frequency). As described the stator voltages for the system shown in Fig. 3 can be produced either inductively, using a continuously rotating resolver, or resistively using a sinecosine circular potentiometer. Also the conductive arrangement shown in Fig. 3 can be replaced by a sine-cosine circular potentiometer.
Patent GB-2331339-A (GB)
Title: Epidural connector
Inventor: PINTO DAVID ANTHONY
IPC: F16L19/065
Filed: 1998-10-19
Abstract: The connector 1 has a compressible slug 30 of e.g. hexagonal outer shape located within a housing 10 of circular section and adjacent a shoulder 15 at the forward end of the housing which has an opening 16 through which an epidural cannula 2 extends into a bore 31 through the slug 30. A rear part 12 of the connector has a female bore 23 to receive the nose 4 of a syringe by which fluid is dispensed to the cannula 2 the rear part 12 being screwed into the housing to compress the slug 30 about the cannula. A first steel washer 36 is located between one end of the slug 30 and the shoulder 15 in the housing, and a second washer 35 is located between the other end of the slug and the end 18 of the rear part 12 and enable free rotation of the rear part 12 and the housing 10 relative to the slug 30, thereby reducing twisting of the slug.
Patent GB-2333157-A (GB)
Title: Modulation method for production of stimulated echoes
Inventor: HENNIG JUERGEN
IPC: G01R33/563
Filed: 1998-11-13
Abstract: A method for magnetic resonance imaging (NMR) subjects a sample of magnetic spins, having differing Larmor frequencies and located in an external magnetic field, to a sequence of at least two radio frequency pulse sequences in time separation tm with respect to each other, wherein the difference in Larmor frequencies is due to the type of nuclei, to the inhomogeneities of the magnetic field utilized, or through action of an additional magnetic field gradient and wherein the first radio frequency pulse sequence effects excitation of, relative to the distribution of Larmor frequencies, periodic modulation of the z-magnetization having a modulation separation 2## and the second radio frequency pulse sequence transfers this periodic modulating z-magnetization into transverse magnetization leading to signal production. The method is characterized in that at least one of the radio frequency pulse sequences utilized has a periodic rectangular excitation shape having a modulation separation 2## so that, following a certain time determined by the modulation separation 2##, at least a partial coherence of transverse magnetization results and thereby a measurable NMR signal. In this manner, an improved stimulated echo signal can be created.
Patent GB-2332044-A (GB)
Title: Electroluminescent strip hazard light
Inventor: WATSON PETER MATTHEW
IPC: H05B33/00
Filed: 1998-12-04
Abstract: A hazard warning light 2 comprising a strip 6 of electroluminescent material 8. The strip 6 is preferably flexible and may be bent to form a tube or wrapped around a tube such as a scaffolding pole 4 or road cone (18 fig 2) or may extend horizontally to form a barrier (36 fig 6). The strip 6 is preferably battery 14 powered with an invertor and may provide a pulsing or continuous light. The strip 6 may be in roll form on a reel which can be rolled up manually or automatically. The electroluminescent material 8 preferably comprises a dielectric layer and a phosphor layer sandwiched between two conducting surfaces.
Patent GB-2330715-A (GB)
Title: A multi-channel amplifier with Cartesian feedback
Inventor: DENT PAUL W
IPC: H03F1/02
Filed: 1995-01-11
Abstract: A "matrix" amplifier is arranged to flexibly amplify a plurality of signals with a plurality of amplifiers such that, for example, a group of amplifiers may be devoted to one signal. The phase of the amplifier inputs may be determined by using a form of Cartesian feedback. Various other arrangements are described including: deriving constant amplitude signals from varying amplitude signals (amplitude information contained in phases) for application to non-linear amplifiers to increase efficiency, and disposal (eg by radiation into a harmless direction) or recovery of energy of intermodulation products.
Patent GB-2347240-A (GB)
Title: Communication terminal having a predictive editor application
Inventor: HAESTRUP JAN
IPC: H04M1/72436
Filed: 1999-02-22
Abstract: A communication terminal, such as a cellular or cordless telephone or a communicator (Fig.1), has a display 3 which is controlled by a processor 18 in accordance with the operation of a keypad 2 having a plurality of keys associated with several letters each. A predictive editor program is used for editing text for message handling, phonebook editing and searching, Internet browsing, etc., and generates an output containing words matching a received string of ambiguous key strokes, using a number of associated vocabularies 41 including at least one language dependent dictionary and at least one dictionary which receives user defined inputs. The user can select from a plurality of possible word matches, and is able to acknowledge that a word suggested by the predictive editor is part of a compound word (e.g. "Steam", shown), wherein the acknowledged part of the word is fixed by the editor application, and the sequence of key strokes serving as input for the editor application is reset in order to determine another part of the compound word independently of the acknowledged part.
Patent GB-2334555-A (GB)
Title: Immersible pump
Inventor: WATANABE MITSUHIRO
IPC: F04D13/00
Filed: 1999-02-22
Abstract: An immersed pump having a suction port 4A directly immersed in a liquid has an impeller 7 driven and rotated by a motor 2 via a rotating shaft 6 to draw a liquid from the suction port 4A into a pump housing 3A and eject it from an ejection port 5. The suction port 4A is provided at the lower end of a body frame 1 or on the outer circumference of the upper end of the housing 3A, while the ejection port 5 is provided at the lower end of the housing 3A. The need to seal the rotating shaft 6 with a shaft sealing apparatus is eliminated and the effect on individual pump sections of a) the thrust of the rotating shaft effected by the rotation of an impeller and b) the weight of a motor acting in the same direction, is reduced thereby preventing defects in the pump.
Patent GB-2337067-A (GB)
Title: Drilling, drill-in, or completion fluids
Inventor: BLAND RONALD GENE
IPC: C09K8/06
Filed: 1999-05-06
Abstract: A drilling, drill-in or completion fluid comprises a substantially linear heteropolyglycol in an amount effective to promote polymer or shale stabilization. The fluid may be water based and the substantially linear heteropolyglycols are produced by reacting an alkyl oxide, e.g. ethylene oxide, with either a linear alpha omega diol or tetrahydrofuran.
Patent GB-2351586-A (GB)
Title: Fraud protection for a self-service terminal
Inventor: MAY DAVID CHARLES CARRINGTON
IPC: G07F19/00
Filed: 1999-06-29
Abstract: A self-service terminal (e.g. ATM) anti-fraud device has a search coil (20) for detecting metal, where the search coil (20) is located in the vicinity of a user interface element. The search coil (20) may be located in the throat (22) of a card reader module (14d) so that the search coil (20) is in the vicinity of an area liable to placement of a fraudulent third party device.